Beyoncé leads 2025 Grammy noms, turning into most nominated artist in present’s historical past

“Cowboy Carter” is up for album and nation album of the 12 months, and “Texas Maintain ’Em” is nominated for file, tune and nation tune of the 12 months. She additionally obtained nominations in a large swath of genres, together with pop, nation, Americana and melodic rap efficiency classes.

That is her first time receiving nominations within the nation and Americana classes. Beforehand, she and her husband Jay-Z had been tied for many profession nominations, at 88.

If Beyoncé wins the album of the 12 months, she’ll change into the primary Black lady to take action within the 21st century. Lauryn Hill final gained in 1999 for “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” becoming a member of Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston as the one Black ladies to take dwelling the Grammys’ high prize.

Submit Malone additionally obtained his first ever nominations within the nation classes this 12 months, having launched his debut nation album “F-1 Trillion” in August. That one is up for nation album and “I Had Some Assist,” his collaboration with Morgan Wallen, is nominated for nation tune and nation duo/group efficiency. They’re Wallen’s first ever Grammy nominations.

Malone is simply behind Beyoncé, with seven nominations, tied with Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Charli XCX, who earned her first nominations as a solo artist.

Lamar’s ubiquitous diss monitor launched throughout his feud with Drake, “Not Like Us,” is nominated for file and tune of the 12 months, rap tune, music video in addition to greatest rap efficiency. He has two simultaneous entries within the latter class, a profession first: Future & Metro Boomin that includes Lamar, “Like That” is up for greatest rap efficiency and greatest rap tune.

That is his third time receiving two simultaneous nominations for greatest rap tune.

Taylor Swift and first-time nominees Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan boast of six nominations every.

Final 12 months, ladies artists dominated the key classes. This 12 months, that continues considerably, however the principle development appears to be a variance of style. Within the album of the 12 months class, alongside “Cowboy Carter” is André 3000’s new age, alt-jazz “New Blue Solar” and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier’s “Djesse Vol. 4.” Rising pop stars Carpenter and Roan spherical it out, with “Quick n’ Candy” and “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” respectively, in addition to Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Division,” Eilish’s “Hit Me Exhausting and Delicate,” and Charli XCX’s rave-ready “BRAT.”

Eilish is the one artist to have her first three albums change into nominated for album of the 12 months.

Final 12 months, Swift gained album of the 12 months for “Midnights,” breaking the file for many wins within the class with 4. This 12 months, she turns into the primary ever lady to seven profession nominations within the class.

“The breadth and the number of genres represented within the common subject feels new and actually thrilling,” says the Recording Academy CEO and President Harvey Mason jr. He credit an energetic and evolving voting physique for its success. “We’ve been very intentional in how we checked out and tried to rebalance our membership. So not simply gender or individuals of coloration, totally different racial make-up, but additionally style fairness and making an attempt to make it possible for all several types of music in numerous areas and totally different places are being represented in each manner potential.”

Solely recordings commercially launched within the U.S. between Sept. 16, 2023 by means of Aug. 30, 2024 had been eligible for nominations. The ultimate spherical of Grammy voting, which determines its winners, will happen Dec. 12 by means of January 3.

In the very best new artist class, Carpenter and Roan will go head-to-head, alongside Benson Boone, Doechii, Khruangbin, RAYE, Shaboozey and Teddy Swims.

Within the tune of the 12 months class, Beyoncé is joined by Eilish with “Birds of a Feather,” Swift and Submit Malone with “Fortnight,” Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!”, Carpenter’s “Please Please Please,” Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” Girl Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With A Smile,” and Shaboozey’s “A Bar Track (Tipsy).”

Shaboozey can also be a first-time nominee. His “A Bar Track (Tipsy)” is the largest tune of the 12 months, having spent extra weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 than another — it’s so well-liked, a remix of the monitor can also be up for remixed recording.

Elsewhere, Shaboozey is nominated within the melodic rap efficiency class for his characteristic on Beyoncé’s “SPAGHETTII.” Linda Martell, the primary commercially-successful Black lady musician in nation, can also be featured on the tune, delivering the 83-year-old artist her first Grammy nomination.

For file of the 12 months, “Texas Maintain ’Em” will compete towards Swift and Submit Malone’s “Fortnight,” Eilish’s “Birds of a Father,” Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!”, Carpenter’s “Espresso,” Charli XCX’s “360,” and the Beatles final new tune, the AI-assisted “Now and Then.”

“We’re making an attempt to verify we’re maintaining with how music creators and our neighborhood are utilizing expertise. And on this case, AI enhanced the file and allowed it to be eligible within the classes that it was eligible in,” Mason jr explains.

Dolly Parton scored her 55th profession nomination within the audio e book, narration, and storytelling recording class for her “Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones,” information The Related Press broke to the nation music legend Friday morning. “No! What did I get nominated for?” she cheered over the cellphone. “Oh, nicely, that is cool. I assumed it will be for my rock album, I would take it.

“It feels good. I’m all the time appreciative of every part. I don’t work for that, however it’s all the time good to say ‘you’ve accomplished good work,’ and for anyone to acknowledge that. So, I’m all the time happy with each award I get and each point out I get. That simply makes me really feel like I’m doing the fitting factor.”

She’s up towards producer Man Oldfield, George Clinton, Barbra Streisand and Jimmy Carter, who may change into the oldest Grammy award winner in historical past at 100.

So, what’s lacking? Like final 12 months, there’s an enormous dearth of Latin music — the quickest rising streaming style in america — throughout the board, and no illustration within the main classes. There are additionally solely 4 entries in the very best Música Mexicana album class, regardless of it additionally being one of many quickest rising genres.

And Okay-pop, too, appears to be absent. There aren’t any nominations for the BTS members who’ve launched solo materials this 12 months: RM’s “Proper Place, Improper Individual,” J-Hope’s “Hope on the Road, Vol. 1,” and Jimin’s “Muse.” As a boy band, BTS has obtained 5 nominations throughout their profession.

“I positively see room for enchancment throughout many genres and we’re persevering with to ask individuals to be part of the academy,” Mason jr. says. “With out the fitting illustration we don’t get the fitting outcomes. After I say proper, I imply reflective and consultant of what’s occurring in music immediately. So, the work continues.”

The 2025 Grammy Awards will air Feb. 2 dwell on CBS and Paramount from the Crypto.com Enviornment in Los Angeles.